Indeed, the new songs that Krieger and Russell have written for this incarnation address this emphasis on a clarified narrative. "There's a song 'All in the Mind' that's sung by Harry Houdini in a flashback of the girls' lives," says Krieger. "Part of it is Houdini appearing and explaining how they can use mental skills to isolate themselves from each other or things they don't want to deal with. It's a mental compartmentalization formula that he teaches them in song. I'm so glad I wrote that song with Bill Russell. It's deep and dark and fun and meaningful. There's also a song called "Very Well Connected", where Terry Connor puts out his resume for them so that they'll trust him."

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Condon acknowledges there are many possibilities, including an eventual film. "It's become less a backstage musical and more a biographical musical drama," he says. "We're filling it in in a way that you could do it as a movie. I think it would be a tremendous movie musical. Not a mass-marketed one, but of interest. That's always the trick.

is anyone else worried about all the changes made and new plot lines added? I hope they are all good, but right now from reading this it seems like the story is will no longer just be about daisy and violet and more about the freaks . I hope i am wrong.......I hope the tunnel of love is still in show!!! what do you guys think?

finebydesign, I think they also did a piece on The Book of Mormon before it opened.

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ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."

The original had other freaks as well, including reptile man and the geek. They appear in the first number and through until the girls leave the freak show.

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From another Side Show thread - This has Devil You Know - but, this was five years ago!

From all that chat: The song list from the 2008 reading

Act One

Come Look at the Freaks Happy Birthday I’m Daisy, I’m Violet Like Everyone Else Very Well-Connected Say Goodbye to the Side Show (Preprise) The Devil You Know Typical Girls Next Door Our Whole Life Has Been A Show I’ve Had Enough of Your Complaining The Doctors Houdini All in the Mind Auntie and Sir These Weeks We’ve Spent Together Feelings You’ve Got to Hide The Trial Say Goodbye to the Side Show Brother Brother Ready to Play Meant to Sing Buddy Kissed Me Who Will Love Me As I Am?

Act Two

Entr’Acte Stuck With You (Part I) Leave Me Alone Stuck With You (Part II) New Year’s Eve Auld Lang Syne Private Conversation One Plus One Equals Three Side Show Buddy’s Jitters Perfect Solution You Should Be Loved A Beautiful Day for a Wedding Jake’s Farewell Buddy’s Confession Marry Me, Terry I Will Never Leave You The Freaks Return Finale

Dave: If anything, I think the show has gotten much richer in every possible way. I think what Bill's brought to it is amazing. He has a good eye for this sort of thing. He's keeping it kind of dark, but the characters are very appealing. Like in the film FREAKS, our freaks are very appealing, and that's what I like about it. I'm more on the side of the freaks and geeks and monsters usually. I just like that whole area. So it was wonderful to go down there, meet the actors, and the next minute they're wearing all of our stuff and they are those characters. If anything, I think there's more of that stuff in this show. One of the first things we said was that we wanted to get a lot of the original characters from FREAKS in it. In the one that we're doing now, I would say that there is a good amount of them in, but I hope we get to add to them [in the Kennedy Center production next year]. It would be nice to get Johnny Eck in there and Prince Randian and the Stork Woman and all of those sorts of things. I'm hoping that we get to add to our menagerie of freaks as time goes on.